EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND.— OGILBY. 137 



ASERAGGODES Kaiip. 



Aseraggodes Kaup, Arch. f. Nat., xxiv, 1858, i, p. 103 ({juUnlatus) ; Jordan & Starks, Proc. U. S, 

 Nat. Mas., xxxi, 1907, p. 229. 



Body ovate, obtusely rounded anteriorly, the caudal peduncle very short 

 and deep. Scales small, adherent, ctenoid, extending on the bases of the vertical 

 tins; head everywhere scaly, except the snout of the ej'^ed side and a narrow 

 stripe on the blind side, from the snout to the apex of the branchial aperture, 

 which is densely clothed with skinny filaments. Lateral line straight, extending 

 on the head and caudal fin, the pores simple. Head small, the snout without hook, 

 not or but little ijrojecting beyond the lower jaw. Mouth terminal or subterminal, 

 narrower on the blind side than on the eyed. Anterior nostril on both sides 

 tubular. Eyes small, the upper a little in advance of the lower, separated by a 

 luirrow scaly concave interspace. Dorsal originating on the snout, anal slightly 

 in advance of tlie opercular angle ; most of the rays divided, with the tips free, 

 and a skinny pleat on tlie blind side. Caudal fin sharply rounded, with 18 rays, 

 of which 15 are divided. No pectoral fins. Ventrals subsymmetrical, the right 

 but little longer and not higher than the left, the rays simple, both inserted 

 symmetrically on the edge of the abdominal ridge, and separate from or united 

 to the anal. Gill-openings narrow; gill-membranes broadly united below; gill- 

 rakers rudimentary. Vent submedian. (a, priv., o-r/payyojSr/s, full of pores.) 



Small thick soles, inhabiting the inshore waters of the Australian and 

 ^Malayan Seas, ranging northward to Japan and eastward to the Solomons and 

 Lord Howe Island. About a dozen species known. 



ASERAGGODES MACLEAYANUS (Ramsay). 

 (Plate XV.) 



Solea Maclcayana Ramsay, Proc. Linn. See. N. S. Wales, v, pt. 4, 20 May 1881, p. 462 ; Macleay, 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vi, 1881, p. 135 ; id., ibid., vii, 1882, p. 15. 

 Solca flaviatilis Ramsay, ibid., vii, pt. 1, 23 May 1882, p. Ill ; Macleay, ibid., ix, 1884, p. 50 ; 



Ogilby, Catal. Fish. N. S. Wales, 1886, p. 49. 

 Solea madeayana Woods, Fish & Fisher. N. S. Wales, 1882, pp. 21, 77 ; Ogilby, ibid. ; id., Edib. 



Fish. N. S. Wales, 1893, p. 159 ; Stead, Fish. Austr., 1900, pp. 183, 264. 

 Aseraggodes viacleayanus Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxi, 1897, p. 817 ; id., Proc. 



Roy. Soc. Queensl., xxi, 1908, p. 25 ; id.. List Edib. Fish. Moreton Bay, 1911, p. 1. 

 Aseraggodes macleayana Waite, Mem. Austr. Mus., iv, 1899, pp. 29, 124, pi. xxix ; id., Synops. 



Fish. N. S. Wales, 1904, p. 44 ; Stead, Edib. Fish. N. S. Wales, 1908, p. 105, pi. Ixxii. 



NARROW-BANDED SOLE. 



Type localities: — Manly Beach, N.S.W. {S. macleayana). 



Hunter River, N.S.W. {8. jluviatilis) . 



Sides of body nearly parallel from behind the head to well beyond the 

 middle, thence gradually converging to the peduncle, the depth of which is 3-5 

 to -4 in that of the body, which is 2-1 to 2-3 in its length. Head deeper than 

 long, its length 5 to 5-3 in that of the body. Snout short, its ti£ on a level with 

 the inferior border of the lower eye, its length from that eye 3-6 to 3-8 in that 

 of the head. Cleft of mouth extending to below or a little beyond the anterior 

 border of the lower eye. Anterior nostril of colored side tubular, wide, situated 

 in front of the upper half of the lower eye ; posterior valvular, pierced in the 



